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Hello!
Today I noticed that one of my scheduled task can't start:
I've checked that there's really another instance running:
Frankly speaking I wouldn't have ever guessed that one may try to End the task that is not Running if I hadn't read about it here -
I know how this issue can be "workarounded" but I'd like to understand just one thing: if - for some reason - the instance of my task hasn't completed and the new instance will not be started (as depicted above) then why does the state of my task (ExchREPLICATION) - i.g. the state of the single instance that "is already running" according to the error message - is Ready and not Running ?
Thank you in advance,
Michael
Try setting the "Repeat for a duration of" to either 1 day or 1425 minutes. That should cover the 24 hours between 4:25 on day 1 and 4:25 on the next day when the "Recur every 1 day" will take over for the next 24 hours.
Hello MotoX80,
Thank you for your reply!
"Try setting the "Repeat for a duration of" to either 1 day or 1425 minutes. ..." - sorry, didn't get it... - what the effect of doing it should be???
I think that what you are doing is scheduling redundant/overlapping triggers. You don't need both of these.
If you schedule a task to run one time and then "repeat indefinitely", it will run at the defined time and then again at the repeat interval. Indefinitely says to keep running it every 15 minutes today, tomorrow, and the next day and the next day....
And by setting it to run "At 4:25pm every day", then on day 1 you have "task instance 1" running every 15 minutes today, tomorrow, and the next day and the next day.... Tomorrow at 4:25, "task instance 2" will be scheduled, so you will end up with task instances 1 and 2 trying to run at the same time, today, tomorrow, etc, etc. On day 3, you'll have 3 task instances trying to run.
Pick one or the other. If you want to have the "for a duration of" set to indefinitely, then don't the task to run "Daily recur every 1 day".
If you want to set the task to run "Daily recur every 1 day", then the "for a duration of" should not be more than 24 hours.
Monitor the "Next Run Time", and its history log and verify that the task is running when you expect it to run.